Posted on 07/01/2008 4:44:14 AM PDT by IrishMike
A heated debate is raging in Sweden after an eight-year-old boy's failure to invite two classmates to his birthday party resulted in a complaint filed with parliament.
Nearly 200 outraged comments have been posted on the website of the local southern Swedish daily Sydsvenskan, just days after the paper reported on the unlikely string of events that followed a young boy's decision to invite all of his classmates to his birthday party except two.
The policy at the boy's school in the southern town of Lund was that all children (or all the boys or all the girls) had to be invited to parties when their invitations were handed out in class.
AdvertisementWhen a teacher noticed that two children had been left out of a party list, she promptly confiscated all the invitations, according to Sydsvenskan.
The school principal said that the ones who were not invited felt sad and left out.
The boy's father meanwhile decided to file a complaint with the Swedish parliamentary ombudsman, insisting his son's rights had been trampled on.
He told the paper that the two boys in question should not have been surprised that they had not made the guest list.
He claimed that one of them did not invite his son to his birthday and the other has bullied his son for six months.
He said: 'You don't invite your antagonists to a birthday party,' adding that he had not been aware of the school policy.
He said that his son feels terrible about the situation as no one has the right to confiscate anyone's property in this way.
He added that it is just like stealing mail.
The parliamentary ombudsman is scheduled to rule in the case on 8 September.
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A sad situation -- but if you live in a socialist country, you have to get used to the authorities confiscating your property.
Gov’t is just getting started. After telling them who they must invite, they’ll monitor the party to make sure no unhealthy snacks or drinks are being served. All party games will also have to be approved by the Minister of Recreation.
Happy Birthday kid.
If you want to leave some kids uninvited, then mail them out yourself. I don't have a problem with this as it is meant to save the uninvited kids embarassment. I don't think a federal case should have been made out of this rule, though.
i mean honestly, you could not make this stuff up..
Here is another one, they’re actually so humerous I select the dumbest to post
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Hash bars of Amsterdam may run out of puff in face of smoking ban
The marijuana bars of Amsterdam have survived many legal challenges but may finally have met their match in health and safety laws.
From Tuesday, the Netherlands becomes the latest European country to comply with EU law and ban smoking in bars and restaurants.
The Health Ministry has made it clear the ban will apply to cafes that sell marijuana, known as coffee shops.
But many hope to exploit a loophole: the ban covers tobacco but not marijuana.
That still leaves coffee shops and customers with a problem. Marijuana users traditionally smoke pot mixed with tobacco.
One alternative is “vapouriser” machines, which incinerate the drug smokelessly. Another scheme is replacing tobacco with herbs like coltsfoot, which smokers describe as tasting a bit like oregano.
Yet, this is what happens when the state takes over families and children.
Coming soon to a location near you!
Socialism strikes again.
Welcome to our future under Obama.
Yes I’m sure it’s a very good use of tax dollars, school resources, etc, to supervise the handing out of a party invitation. This is very important, as opposed to learning and other extraneous activities, and it teaches the kids early on that the state controls their every move and will “protect” them even from having their feelings hurt. This makes the children much happier right up to the moment when reality intrudes and exacts its inevitable toll.
You try to explain to people that yes, each of these one million policies sounds like a “good” thing but when you take a look at the whole picture enormous time and money is wasted by having government do all this non essential crap. Plus the intrusion on our lives.
Nice to know their government doesn’t have anything else to worry about.
Seems like most Swedes are dweebs. Must be the water???
I just left an email list because of some people on it who think big government is the answer to everything. They were complaining about the government, then turning around and saying that the answer to problems is to raise taxes to pay for more government programs to help people, and rich should pay more because they have it to contribute. Gack.
Just trying to explain why this is wrong to people who just don’t get it is the ultimate in futility.
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